12 Dec 2005

The Marriage, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/874d57fc-6ab3-11da-ba41-0000779e2340.html

mussorgsky_bw.jpgBy RICHARD FAIRMAN [Financial Times, 12 December 2005]

Somebody at the Philharmonia Orchestra must have a sense of humour. It was a nice idea to turn a concert into a speed-dating event, but is Musorgsky's unfinished comic opera The Marriage really the right work to fill young hearts with romance?